The Cambridge history of China / general editors, Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank.
Vol. 1. edited by Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe; vol. 5 edited by Denis Twitchett and Paul Jakov Smith; vol. 6 edited by Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett; vols. 7-8 edited by Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett; vol. 9. edited by Willard J. Peterson; vol. 11 edited by John F. Fairbank and Kwang-Ching Liu; vol. 13 edited by John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker; vols. 14-15 edited by Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Dig.pdf. [Cambridge history of China (v.)]

V. 1. The Chʻin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.-A.D. 220 -- v. 3:1. Sui and Tʻang China, 589-906, pt. 1 -- v. 5. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279, pt.1 -- v. 6. Alien regimes and border states, 907-1368 -- v. 7-8. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, pt. 1-2 -- v. 9. The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, pt. 1 -- v. 10. Late Chʻing, 1800-1911, pt. 1 -- v. 11. Late Chʻing, 1800-1911, pt. 2 -- v. 12. Republican China, 1912-1949, pt. 1. -- v. 13. Republican China, 1912-1949, pt. 2. -- v. 14. The People's Republic, pt. 1. -- v. 15. The People's Republic, pt. 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982.

Introduction: problems of method and of content / John K. Fairbank -- The intellectual history of China: preliminary reflections / Benjamin Schwartz -- The political function of astronomy and astronomers in Han China / Wolfram Eberhard -- The formation of Sui ideology, 581-604 / Arthur F. Wright -- An early Sung reformer: Fan Chung-yen / James T.C. Liu -- The Tung-lin movement of the late Ming period / Charles O. Hucker -- Chinese despotism and the Confucian ideal: a seventeenth-century view / W.T. de Bary -- Synarchy under the treaties / John K. Fairbank -- Chinese class structure and its ideology / Tʻung-tsu Chʻü -- Region, family, and individual in the Chinese examination system / E.A. Kracke, Jr. -- The functional relationship between Confucian thought and Chinese religion / C.K. Yang -- The concept of "pao" as a basis for social relations in China / Lien-sheng Yang -- The scholar's frustration: notes on a type of "fu" / Hellmut Wilhelm -- The amateur ideal in Ming and early Chʻing society: evidence from painting / Joseph R. Levenson.

Originally published in Harvard journal of Asiatic studies, 1939-1941. "The reproduction is photographic... [with] the addition of continuous pagination."
Chinese title at head of title page: Man Qing zhengfu sanjiang 滿清政府三講.
"A selected list of Ch'ing works 1644-1860 on maritime relations": p.178-191.
"Bibliographical notes": p.210-215.
Contents: On the transmission of Ch'ing documents -- On the types and uses of Ch'ing documents -- On the Ch'ing tributary system.

"Supplement to the Chouban yiwu shimo of the Daoguang and Xianfeng reigns." Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, p. 931.